Apache + SSL as a module
 

hey everybody , I'm going to apply SSL to my Apache , when I read the document , I found that there's 2 way to use SSL with Apache , the fist is installing Apache-SSL , that's easy and simple way but we have to type https:// insteal of http:// . The second way is that installing SSL as a module of Apache , and I think that was a betterway . But there something I can find out howto in the document . So I would like go get some help from you .

I download apache and mod_ssl to my /tmp , unzip it all . Now going to the mod_ssl forder , I configure it as :

Now going to apache forder and tried :


And now I going to configure apache by vi httpd.conf . When looking at that , I was happy because there are some thing for me in it . Here we are :


So I think SSL was install as a module of Apache . But I want that :
When I try : http://localhost/ , it going to my home page .
When I try : https://localhost/phpPgAdmin/ , it going to my phpPgAdmin ( I've installed it successfuly with http ) .

My document root is :
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/"

and phpPgAdmin I put in :
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/phpPgAdmin">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I don't know how to change those option in the <Directory </Directory> to be able to run https://localhost/phpPgAdmin .

I do not want to use virtual host too because I do not have any dns to test .
As gmail , I see that the login form work with ssl , but when login success , I turn back to http only . How should I do ?

Have you configured your virtual hosts?

<VirtualHost ServerIP:80>
Here put Document root for http
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost ServerIP:443>
Here put Document root for https
</VirtualHost>

But my friend tell me that if I want to use virtual host , I have to had a DNS server ( can not try http://10.0.0.4/phpPgAdmin ) . It's right ?

Here is a good reference
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/examples.html